The homecoming festivities for Grant County High School will include a parade starting at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the outlet center and ending at GCHS.

Parade participates should arrive at 5 p.m., when floats line up. The GCHS Braves will be playing Pendleton County after the parade. Parade floats from churches, businesses, clubs, etc. are needed. For more information, call Christa Ruber at 859-393-2844.

Grant County residents can stay fit and win prizes at the same time by participating in the Challenge 10-10-10 program.

Northern Kentucky Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Agents from Grant and surrounding counties are challenging participants to complete at least 10 physical activities, each lasting at least 30 minutes, between now and Oct. 10.

Challengers must track the activities they complete on a form that must be returned by 4:30 p.m. Oct. 11, in order to be eligible for prizes.

Times are difficult right now in the schools. Money is tight and some districts are having to choose to drop programs and let teachers go due to budget constraints. This is where we must consider carefully the best interests of the students, all students, before we decide to restructure the curriculum and eliminate pieces of a child’s education.

Boy Scout Troop 712 and Cub Scout Pack 318 went on their annual Family Campout to Blue Licks Battlefield Park in July.

At their camp fire, scouts participated in a flag retirement ceremony. Roy Osborne and Keith Hinton taught the scouts the proper way to retire a flag and stressed the seriousness of the ceremony.

The troop plans to do these ceremonies periodically and will accept worn American flags from businesses and individuals. For more information regarding Boy Scout and Cub Scout chapters in Grant County, call 800-872-6887.